roots of rebellion" grow out of the "conforming culture"? Yes or No. Explain.
In my opinion, rebellions, new ideas, revolutions always have the roots into the conformity of an era, may it be a cultural, a political or an economical conformation. There are several arguments to be presented in this sense and the argumentation will aim to emphasize the intrinsic relationship between the rules that a conforming culture is trying to establish and how eluding these rules creates the exact premises for a cultural rebellion.

First of all, we need to consider the fact that, from a certain point-of-view, a conforming culture has several important characteristics. Their identification and enumeration will help in creating the premises for a rebellious response. The first characteristic is the set of rules that the conforming culture imposes on society. These are a set of general characteristics that define culture at a certain time.

Further more, these…...

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Bibliography

1. Hordnes, Lisa. Does Film Noir mirror the culture of contemporary America?2/10 Historical main currents. Last update March 2003. On the Internet at http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/noir/noir02.htm

Hordnes, Lisa. Does Film Noir mirror the culture of contemporary America?2/10 Historical main currents. Last update March 2003. On the Internet at http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/noir/noir02.htm

Four years later a vast Incan army rises up in revolt and attempt to overthrow the Spanish. It is probably this rebellion that resulted in the mass burials that were uncovered. It seems that despite the overwhelming odds, the Spanish hacked its way through the troops by using steel and horses to kill the Incan general. New forensics, though, give a different view of the battle. It seems that most of the wounds on the dead Incas (of 70 deaths, only 3 were killed by bullets), were from Incan maces and other weapons. There was probably no "great" siege, but a few Spanish protected by Indian mercenaries.

What this really says is that it is likely that the Spanish were rather cowardly and only able to succeed in Peru (likely in Mexico, too), because of an alliance with other India tribes, a fact conveniently left out of the Spanish history. In…...

As such, one of the most pivotal historical moments from 1500 to 1900 would have to be the formulation of the ideologies, principles, and tenets which comprise communism. Such principles have as much to do with labor as they do with private property, which Marx explains are inherently dependant on one another since one of the benefits of labor is the creation and maintenance of private estates, typically not enjoyed by the common worker. The following quote from the same source elucidates the value of Communism in providing a universal panacea for these and other effects of imperialist, capitalist societies. "Communism is the positive supersession of private property as human self-estrangement, and hence the true appropriation of the human essence through and for man; it is the complete restoration of man to himself as a social -- i.e., human -- being…" The value of Communism, and therefore its historical and…...

ise to ebellion
The book "ise to ebellion: A Novel of the American evolution" by Jeff Shaara is the story. It tells the story of the American evolutionary War through the eyes of many real people who fought and worked for American freedom, like John Adams, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin. It covers the time period from 1770 to when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. It uses real events from history but it is written like a novel, which makes it much more interesting to read.

The author's thesis in writing this book was not to rewrite history, but to make it more understandable to a new generation of readers. Everybody knows we won the American evolution, so he had to find another angle of the story to make it new and unique. The big new idea that he writes about is that American Margaret Gage, wife of English…...

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References

Shaara, Jeff. Rise to Rebellion. New York, Ballantine Books, 2001.

Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies 180
There seems to be a growing consensus of analysts and product reviewers who believe that the most efficient form of BI for Big Data involves Hadoop. The increasing number of software solutions offered by a host of vendors in the last six months attests to this fact. This claims is further bolstered by the fact that there are several aspects of Hadoop that make it ideal for Big Data -- its virtually unlimited scalability, the real-time speed in which it grants access, and its cost efficiency (it's an open source platform that uses commodity hardware). Factor in the amount of variegated data that it can accommodate (which makes it desirable for little data projects as well) and the fact that it has its own system of analytics, and its popularity becomes understandable. Support for Hadoop is increasing, a fact which many NoSQL Big…...

Sexual freedom and adolescent rebellion in John Updike's "A&P"
The story of John Updike's "A&P" is a simple one: three girls in bathing suits walk into a supermarket in a 'shore town' that is largely populated by tourists in the summer. The girls cause a stir as they wander through the aisles. In general, the female customers are shocked while the males are rendered speechless with sexual desire. The A&P store manager Lengel tells the girls not to come back unless they are decently attired, apparently humiliating them. The main drama in the story comes from the internal conflict present in Sammy, one of the cashiers. Sammy sees the girls as a representative not just of a sexual fantasy, but of a life and a lifestyle he wants to emulate. y quitting, an apparently meaningless gesture, Sammy hopes to ally himself with the girls, rather than with his parents or his…...

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Bibliography

Updike, John. "A&P." <  http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/ >

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War ince 1945
As far as we know, war has been a part of human history and civilization since prehistoric times, so for one to simply assume that a world without war is inevitable is indeed incorrect. War is part of the greatness of human history as well as the dark side of human behavior -- associated often with terror, cruelty and mayhem. Yet over the centuries as humans have developed in so many ways, warfare is a constant part of the ability for states to settle their differences. Traditional military planning focused on the ideas of "might is right," yet after 1945 and the beginnings of the Cold War, this was only partially true.

History Professor Jeremy Black, for instance, believes that military doctrine and traditional foreign policy are inadequate to explain war post-World War II. Of course, the 20th century was filled with warfare -- the bloodiest century ever. Nevertheless,…...

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Sources

Black, J. (2004). War Since 1945. London: Reaktion Books.

Joes, A. (2010). Counterinsurgency in the Philippines 1898-1954, in Marston, D. And Malkasian, C., eds. Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare. Westminster, MD: Osprey Publications.

Moyer, M. (2009). A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies 1800 & 1802 Douglas
Even a cursory read of Gary Kinnell's poem, "Saint Francis and the Sow" and William Stafford's "Traveling Through the Dark" reveals that there are similarities between them. Some of these similarities even pertain to the authors themselves, who were both well-educated American professors born in the early part of the 20th century and greatly influenced by nature in their works. Each of the aforementioned poems is largely about nature, and uses similar settings and imagery. However, a closer read of these works reveals that there is a subtle difference between them. Despite sharing a similar subject matter as Stafford's poem, Kinnell's poem is more a celebration of life as indicated by his characterization, diction and theme.

Characterization plays a principle role in both of these works, and helps to indicate the crucial distinction between them. Stafford, for his part, is both the…...

Revolution
The history of the United States is full of stories of brave men who fought tyranny in order to create a land of the free and the home of the brave. Students' first experience with history relates tales of the Founding Fathers who fought the American Revolution and won. Their actions allowed this country to break away from Great Britain and become an independent and autonomous nation where all men were created equal. This naive believe in the founding of the United States, however, overlooks a series of crimes against humanity both on the shores of America and in the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, such as Jamaica. Much of the American and then the world economy were built upon the bloodied backs of enslaved black men, women, and children. Throughout the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries shiploads of slaves from Africa were sent across the Atlantic to work…...

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Works Cited:

Dubois, Laurent, and John D. Garrigus. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: a Brief

History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. Print.

Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's

Slaves. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Print.

Rebellion
Discuss the problem of how people feel excluded from society and how that leads to rebellion.

Within the fabric of every society are groups of people bonded together through their similar values, culture, race etc. The groups that bond together are prone to exclude others because of their differences. At times these similarities and differences work well together to produce a productive feeling; however, at times the feeling becomes negative and affects the society adversely as one group begins to feel resentment towards the other. This resentment can lead to full fledged rebellion and usually takes place when the basic needs of the group are affected. Consider feelings of nationalism, racism, economic upheaval all of which can individually or collectively combine to create a vortex of aggressive emotions.

In the French Revolution the masses rebelled against the aristocracy as they were getting richer at the expense of the poor. The complete ignorance…...

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Sources:

1. Gellner, Ernest Nations and Nationalism New Perspectives on the Past Series Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983

2. Collins, Eamon Killing Rage Grata Publications, 1998

3. Frantz Fanon. Concerning Violence. In The Wretched of the Earth. New York, 1961, p. 38-39/53-54. Retrieved March 17, 2005, from the World Wide Web:  http://www.hyperghetto.de/texts/fanon/concerning_violence

Christianity demands that its adherents offer absolute forgiveness. But Ivan says "I don't want the mother to embrace the oppressor who threw her son to the dogs! She dare not forgive him! Let her forgive him for herself, if he will, let her forgive the torturer for the immeasurable suffering of her mother's heart. But the sufferings of her tortured child she has no right to forgive; she dare not forgive the torturer, even if the child were to forgive him!" Some crimes are so beyond the pale against the innocent, believes Ivan, they cannot be forgiven: a sentiment that Ivan's brother Alyosha calls 'rebellion.' Ivan states that the Christian belief that God, rather than the victim of the torturer, can bestow forgiveness is abominable. Furthermore, the soul of the child cannot bestow forgiveness for his suffering because the innocent boy does not really fully understand the horror of…...

Rebellion Against Death
"Do not go gentle into that good night" may be considered Dylan Thomas's most recognizable and popular poems. First published in Botteghe Oscure in 1951, the poem later appeared as part of the collection called "In Country Sleep." ritten for Thomas's dying father, the poem explores the theme of death and the resistance thereof.

ritten as a villanelle in which only two sounds are rhymed, such as night/light and day/they, and containing nineteen lines, the poem rhymes the first and third lines, alternating the third line of each successive stanza and closes with a couplet. The villanelle was first utilized in English language poetry in the 19th century and draws upon French poetic models.

Rife with undertones of rebellion, the opening line of "Do not go gentle into that good night" sets the tone for the rest of the poem. Thomas urges his father, and the men referenced in…...

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Works Cited

Donne, John. "Death Be Not Proud." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M.H.

Abrams. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. Print.

Donne, John. "A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning." The Norton Anthology of English

Literature. Ed. M.H. Abrams. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. Print.

Nathaniel Bacon
Bacon's Rebellion:

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The beginnings of our great country were not without bloodshed or sacrifice. Many a great hero fought in the War for Independence, for instance, and this is known to all, but there were other people who fought much smaller social, political and economic battles who must also be remembered. Nathaniel Bacon was certainly one of these people, and this paper will spend time introducing the reader to Bacon and his beliefs, as well as examining his own writing, found in the "Proclamations of Nathaniel Bacon" pamphlet in order to see what the main complaints that Bacon presented against the government of Virginia were, as well as find to what end Bacon's rebellion helped change relationships between the rich and poor; Blacks, Native Americans, and Whites; and free and enslaved early Americans.

Who was Nathaniel Bacon?

Nathaniel Bacon was a wealthy, well-educated Virginia colonialist. He was…...

Taiping ebellion vs. Boxer ebellion
The last two centuries are considered as the golden age of millenarianism in the sense that they brought about a change in the existing system, by means of overthrow of the system which existed. And the new system which evolved was considered as better than the old system which existed and was brought about by overthrowing the powerful. The reason is simple. As the sociologists and historians of the millenarianism say, one does not become sensitive to such ideas simply being oppressed or miserable. But instead, these ideas develop from those of whose expected and traditional lives have been destroyed and disrupted, uprooted and rendered rootless, even if they were having an unpromising and unpleasant life earlier.

As a result of the industrial revolution, many such people came to North America and Europe, but the nations which Europe was trying to bring under its control were the…...

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References

Boardman, E. Christian Influence upon the ideology of the Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1864. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, (1952). pp. 52-81

Chesneaux, Jean; Marianne, Bastid; and Bergere, Marie Claire. "China: From the Opium Wars to the 1911 Revolution" Pantheon Books, (1976) pp. 44-51

Ch'en, Jerome 'The nature and characteristics of the Boxer movement: a morphological study', Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies vol. 23, (1960) p.20-26

Ch'en, Jerome 'The Origin of the Boxers', in Jerome Ch'en and Nicholas Tarling (eds.), Studies in the Social History of China and South East Asia Cambridge, (1970) pp.45-57

Bolotnikov's Rebellion
Rebellions are a continuous process and happen not because of the leader, but due to inherent difficulties faced by certain sections of society. Often there are rebellions by sections of the society and the people who rebel dream of being able to succeed in changing their social rights and facilities. However this often does not happen as the powerful groups of society are always reluctant to give up their rights and benefits. The discontent remains and ultimately the society changes though it is doubtful whether the deprived sections get any benefit, and often it is another powerful group which comes to dominate the society.

It is time and again a disastrous period of plot and rebellion, deception and slaughter that tag along the closing stages of a dynasty in medieval or early modern Europe. The period of 1598 to 1613 in Russia is one such instance and was later called…...

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Chester S.L. Dunning. Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty. PennsylvaniaStateUniversityPress. 2001. p. 8

Jeffrey S. Hardy. The Time of Troubles: Causation, Class Warfare, and Conflicting Interpretations. Accessed 1 October 2005; available from  http://history.byu.edu/phialphatheta/thetean/Russiantime.pdf 

Jeffrey S. Hardy. The Time of Troubles: Causation, Class Warfare, and Conflicting Interpretations. Accessed 1 October 2005; available from

Gandhi is one of the most fascinating people in all of recent history.  An advocate of passive resistance, he not only helped free India from British oppression, but also inspired the 1960s Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr.  Gandhi’s work is so well-known that his name has become synonymous with both peace and leadership.  However, his personal life was marred by some controversies, suggesting that even great men can have terrible flaws.  We cannot possibly tell you all about Gandhi in a few paragraphs; his life and his life’s work....

I. Introduction

A. Hook: Begin with an anecdote or quote that highlights the captivating intersection of poetry and music in Ireland.
B. Background: Provide a brief overview of the cultural and historical significance of both poetry and music in Ireland.
C. Thesis Statement: Clearly state your central argument about the unique relationship between poetry and music collaborations in Ireland.

II. Body Paragraph 1: Historical Collaborations

A. Discuss notable historical instances of poetry and music collaborations in Ireland.
B. Highlight collaborative forms like the Irish bardic tradition, aisling poems with musical accompaniment, and the fusion of traditional Irish music with 20th-century poetry.
C. Analyze the impact of these....

I. Introduction
A. Hook: Have you ever wondered about the mysterious allure of gothic fashion?
B. Background information: Explain what gothic fashion is and its origins.
C. Thesis statement: This essay will explore the elements of a gothic wardrobe and the reasons why it has captivated individuals throughout history.

II. Elements of a Gothic Wardrobe
A. Dark colors: Discuss the significance of black as the predominant color in gothic fashion.
B. Layering: Examine how layering allows gothic fashion enthusiasts to create a dramatic and mysterious look.
C. Fabrics: Analyze the importance of materials such as velvet, lace, and leather....

Gothic Wardrobe: An Exploration of Darkness, Romance, and Identity

I. Introduction
A. Definition and origins of the gothic subculture
B. Key characteristics of gothic fashion, emphasizing its dark aesthetic
C. Thesis statement: Gothic wardrobe is not merely an expression of darkness but a complex exploration of identity, romance, and the human psyche.

II. The Darkness: Exploring the Shadow Side
A. Black as the primary color and its associations with mystery, death, and rebellion
B. The use of lace, velvet, and other opulent fabrics to create a sense of decadence and intrigue
C. Gothic accessories such as corsets, chokers, and jewelry that emphasize a sense of constriction and vulnerability

III.....